Motivational Quotes

Humankind

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

- Doren, Carl Van

Best Quotes about Humankind

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Caulfield, Holden

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

10.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

11.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

14.

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Ruskin, John

16.

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

17.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

19.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

20.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

21.

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

22.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

23.

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

25.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

26.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Casals, Pablo

27.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

28.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

29.

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

31.

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

34.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

37.

[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

42.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

43.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

45.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

48.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John